Democratic Senate Staffer Charged With Betraying National Security
26th January 2012
We have written many times over the years about liberal newspapers, in particular the New York Times, which have published classified information in violation of the Espionage Act. They did thus to undermine the foreign policies of the United States, and in particular to attack the Bush administration. Today the curtain was raised on one of those episodes, as a former CIA official who was more recently a Democratic staffer for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was indicted. The Washington Post has the story (without mentioning, however, that the criminal defendant, John Kiriakou, was a Democratic staffer).
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
January 26th, 2012 at 11:55
Meh. With Obama in office, there is no national security anyway.
January 26th, 2012 at 14:12
Hiding everything under the cloak of “National Security” is a convenient tool to keep the people from knowing what one is doing, especially if what one is doing would incite the public to anger.
Of course, Republicans are so accustomed to marching in lock-step to wherever Dear Leader tells them to go that they would never dream of leaking secret information–unless it would undermine Democratic opposition to Republican policies. Just ask Valerie Plame.